Calgary: City of Animals

by Jim Ellis (Editor), Sean Kheraj (Contribution by), Susan Nance (Contribution by), Shelly M. Alexander (Contribution by), Angela Waldie (Contribution by)

Overview

How have our interactions with animals shaped Calgary?

What can we do to ensure that humans and animals in the city continue to co-exist, and even flourish together?

This wide-ranging book explores the ways that animals inhabit our city, our lives and our imaginations.

Essays from animal historians, wildlife specialists, artists and writers address key issues such as human-wildlife interactions, livestock in the city, and animal performers at the Calgary Stampede.

Contributions from some of Calgary's iconic arts institutions, including One Yellow Rabbit Performance Theatre, Decidedly Jazz Danceworks, and the Glenbow Museum, demonstrate how animals continue to be a source of inspiration and exploration for fashion, art, dance, and theatre.

The full-colour volume is beautifully illustrated throughout with archival images, wildlife photography, documentary and production stills, and original artwork. Index

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781552389676
Publisher:	University of Calgary Press
Publication date:	05/11/2017
Series:	Calgary Institute for the Humanities , #1
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.47(d)

About the Author

Jim Ellis is Professor of English and Director of the Calgary Institute for the Humanities at the University of Calgary. He has written widely on art, literatue and film, and has served on the boards of Truck Gallery and Calgary Cinematheque.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction
Jim Ellis, Director, CIH

How Canadians Used to Use Livestock in Cities
Sean Kheraj

Outlaw Horses and the True Spirit of Calgary In the Automobile Age
Susan Nance

Silence of the Song Dogs
Shelly M. Alexander

Counting Chickadees and Reimagining the Map of Calgary
Angela Waldie

Critical Animal Studies and the Humanities: A Critical Introduction
Mohammad Sadeghi Esfahlani

Wild Animals in the City
Jenna Mcfarland and Andrea Hunt, Calgary Wildlife Rehabilitation Society

Light Pollution in an Animal City
Maureen Luchsinger and Laura Griffin, Ann and Sandy Cross Conservation Area

Excerpt
Our Biodiversity: Calgary’s 10–Year Biodiversity Plan

Squirrel vs. Gopher from Calgary I love You, But You’re Killing Me
One Yellow Rabbit Ensemble

Becoming Insects: A New Universe
Kimberly Cooper, Artistic Director, Decidedly Jazz Danceworks

Kaleidoscopic Animalia: An Exhibition Designed and Curated by Paul Hardy
Paul Hardy and Melanie Kjorlien

Lisa Brawn Interview and Portfolio: Wild Bird Woodcuts
Calgary Institute for the Humanities

Her Dark Materials: Yvonne Mullock’s Dark Horse at Stride gallery
Jim Ellis

Conclusion
Jim Ellis

Notes
Contributors

Editorial Reviews

The usefulness of the work is to place scholarly interventions in conversation with activists working with wildlife rehabilitation and habitat conservation, as well as artists and a museum curator who explore the importance of animals as inspiration and fellow creatures. The book challenges the neat distinctions one might draw among disciplines or among artists, activists, and scholars. It shows not only that animals, human and non-human, might co-flourish in the city, but that those different fields of activity might co–flourish.

—Frederick L. Brown, Network in Canadian History and Environment

From the Publisher